Quotes About Legal Writing

#1. ood legal writing does not sound as though it was written by a lawyer. Good legal writing, like good writing in general, is writing that keeps the readers' interests foremost.13

Ross Guberman

#2. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

Jeffrey Rosen

#3. People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

William Lashner

#4. There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

Fred Rodell

#5. Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.

John Lennon

#6. I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

J. D. Souther

#7. I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I'm doing fiction.

Gore Vidal

#8. The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Bryant H. McGill

#9. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Lisa Scottoline

#10. I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Rachel Sklar

#11. We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.

Alain De Botton

#12. Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.

Roy Peter Clark

#13. People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Ruth Ozeki

#14. I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want.

Mark Coker

#16. In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

Frans De Waal

#17. But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Miguel De Cervantes

#18. First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.

Edgar Cayce

#19. You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or ... anything.

Barack Obama

#20. No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Mary, Queen Of Scots

#21. Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.

Arianna Huffington

#22. For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

Jackie Collins

#23. If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

Tim Leffel

#24. Must. Be. Stronger. Than. Tequila. Oh, honey, how many times have those words been said?

Carrie Ann Ryan

#25. To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

Peter Jackson

#26. When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls.

Grace Helbig

#27. Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Lisa Scottoline

#28. Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#30. We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Margaret Fuller

#31. Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Jimmy Swaggart

#32. When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Jonathan Dee

#33. I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

Nelson DeMille

#34. If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

Chuck Grassley